Journalctl compiled without pattern matching support, pcre2 is not in main
Bug #1751006 reported by
Bas Zoetekouw
This bug affects 9 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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systemd (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Dimitri John Ledkov |
Bug Description
Please add pattern matching support to journalctl. At the moment, the -g (--grep) option as described in the man page doesn't work:
╰─▶ journalctl --grep=xhci-hcd
Compiled without pattern matching support
Changed in systemd (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-18.03 |
assignee: | nobody → Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) |
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pcre2 library is not in Ubuntu Main, and therefore cannot be used, at runtime, by such a core package as systemd.
once pcre2 is available in main, and thus has full Ubuntu Security support, I will be able to enable pattern matching support.